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Creativity and the Role of the Leader (Spanish version)
Amabile, Teresa M.; Khaire, MuktiArticle HBS-R0810GStrategyThe leader's job is not to be the source of ideas but to encourage and champion ideas. Leaders must tap the imagination of employees at all ranks and ask inspiring questions. They also need to help their organizations incorporate diverse perspectives, which spur creative insights, and facilitate creative collaboration by, for instance, harnessing new technologies. The participants shared tactics for enabling discoveries, as well as thoughts on h...Starting at €8.20
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Foster Engagement and High Performance at Work
Kramer, Steven J.; Amabile, Teresa M.Book Chapter HBS-8595BC-ELeadership and People ManagementHow do you get the best out of the people in your organization? According to organizational behavior experts Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, the secret to fostering amazing performance is empowering talented people to succeed and progress at meaningful work. This chapter introduces the authors' foundational idea--the Progress Principle--and shows how you can use it to support the inner work lives of your employees, bringing out their joy, deep ...Starting at €8.20
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Scenes from the Organizational Trenches: Understanding Your Employees' Inner Work Life--And Its Impact on Morale, Productivity, and Performance
Kramer, Steven J.; Amabile, Teresa M.Book Chapter HBS-8596BC-ELeadership and People ManagementIf your company is going through tough times, it's easy to blame uncertain economic conditions, an upstart competitor, or a rogue accountant's scandal. But the real reason may be employee dissatisfaction--and your failure to acknowledge or address this problem can cause it to fester and infect the whole organization. By telling the true story of the demise of a once-successful company, organizational behavior experts Teresa Amabile and Steven Kra...Starting at €8.20
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The Inner Work Life Effect: How Inner Work Life Drives Performance--Why Joy Is a Better Motivator Than Stress
Kramer, Steven J.; Amabile, Teresa M.Book Chapter HBS-8598BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo make your employees more effective, do you galvanize their performance by throwing down a challenge, creating a sense of competition and stress to bring out their toughness and creativity? Or do you give them work that they enjoy and create a culture of support? Based on a detailed study that examined daily workplace diaries from individuals at seven different companies, organizational behavior experts Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer decisive...Starting at €8.20
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The Progress Principle: The Power of Meaningful Accomplishment--How Supporting Your Employees' Daily Progress Leads to High Performance
Kramer, Steven J.; Amabile, Teresa M.Book Chapter HBS-8604BC-ELeadership and People ManagementWhat motivates your employees? When asked, most managers cite recognition, tangible incentives, and clear work goals. But very few mention actual progress in the work and how they should support it as a means of motivating their people. In this chapter, organizational behavior experts Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer explain why making progress is so central to good inner work life and high-level performance--and that the key to leveraging this P...Starting at €8.20
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The Catalyst Factor: The Power of Project Support--How Helping Your Employees to Do Their Work Builds a Culture of Engagement and High Performance
Kramer, Steven J.; Amabile, Teresa M.Book Chapter HBS-8605BC-ELeadership and People ManagementGreat managers deliberately create catalysts that facilitate the timely, creative, high-quality completion of their employees' work. Catalysts are critical because beyond their direct effect on the specific project at hand, they positively affect the inner work lives of employees, in turn spurring higher levels of motivation, engagement, and performance across all their work. (For example, consider an employee who has had a request for a new comp...Starting at €8.20
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The Nourishment Factor: The Power of Interpersonal Support--How Fostering Positive Human Connections Drives Progress at Work
Kramer, Steven J.; Amabile, Teresa M.Book Chapter HBS-8606BC-EEveryone craves human connection at work. We want others to respect, recognize, care for, and enjoy us. When they do, we revel in the positive emotions of joy, pride, and even love--and we're motivated to contribute our best. Over time, these inner work life reactions to what organizational behavior experts Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer call "nourishers" in fact fuel superior performance. As a manager and a team leader, you can inspire top per...Starting at €8.20
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Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc. (Spanish version)
Amabile, Teresa M.; Whitney, DeanCase HBS-808S08Entrepreneurshipoptions for staffing, structuring, and managing cross-functional business teams; the difficulty of implementing cross-functional teams in a company with a strong functional structure; the difficulty of balancing accountability and empowerment in "entrepreneurial" teams within established firms; and the impact of different management approaches on the functioning of business teams.Starting at €8.20
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Services de Sûreté
Sabrià, FredericCase TD-107Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityUna empresa francesa líder mundial en el sector de la electromecánica se plantea contratar los servicios de un grupo especializado en seguridad industrial. El Presidente Director General debe considerar la adopción de sistemas para paliar las amenazas externas (el espionaje industrial, por ejemplo), las amenazas internas (que provienen de los propios empleados y asociados de la compañía) y la cobertura de delitosStarting at €8.20
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La campa
Medina P. E.; Sabrià, FredericCase P-882Service and Operations ManagementEl director de logística de una gran empresa fabricante y distribuidor de automóviles en España recibe el encargo de estudiar las posibilidades de mejorar el sistema de distribución de vehículo, en concreto sustituyendo los stocks físicos en cada distribuidor por un stock centralizado "virtual" al que puedan acceder los distribuidores.Starting at €8.20